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SPENCER A. WELLS,` OF SAN ANGELO, TEXAS.;

MARKER.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

Application filed September 2, 1914; Serial No. 859,844.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it it known that I, SPENCER A. IVELLS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Angelo, in the county of Tom Green and State of Texas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Markers, adapted to be used in filing and card index cabinets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a light, simply constructed V-shaped device, which can be readily inserted in the place from which certain correspondence or a card has been removed, so that the exact location will be indicated from which the correspondenc or card has been removed.

Another object is to provide a device of this general character, of a simple and inexpensive nature, and durable in construction, which shall be capable of convenient and accurate adjustment in position between certain correspondence or between index or like cards, to accurately indicate the place from which certain papers or a card have been removed.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claims, it being Yfurther understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention. y

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure l shows a vertical filing cabinet showing a marker embodying my invention in position to indicate the place from which certain papers have been removed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a marker embodying my invention.

' Figs. 5 and G show wedge-shaped stub markers provided with gradually attenuated cylindrical stems.

In my present invention I provide a marker adapted to be used in designating the place in a vertical iling cabinet or a card index system, where certain correspondence nates a cabinet, and B a drawer holding certain correspondence records In a space between portions of the correspondence records is shown a marker embodying my invention.

In its preferred form the marker includes a wedge-shaped member a, to the base b of which is secured a suitable wire handle this construction being shown in Fig. 2.

On removing certain correspondence from a filing cabinet when it is desired to indicate the exact location from which the correspondence has been removed, the operator simply introduces a wedge-shaped member a., in the place from which the correspondence has been removed. As a result, the adjacent papers are held in divergent spaced relation. IVhen it is desired to replace the papers, the operator simply draws the wedge-shaped member toward the forward end of the cabinet to provide a space to the rear of the marker into which the correspondence is inserted. The marker can then be retained in place or removed as desired.

If desired a pyramidal-shaped member may be employed, as shown in Fig. 3 where a pyramidal-shaped member c is provided with the threaded opening l into which is screwed the end 2 of the curved stem cl. This member is used exactly as is the wedgeshaped member.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the wedge-shaped member a is provided with a knob 3, instead of a wire handle f, as shown in Fig. 2. In the modification shown in Figs. 5 and G stub wedge-shaped members a are shown being provided, respectively, with the gradually attenuated round straight stems 4l and 5. In these modifications a stub wedge instead of a long wedge is used, as it is found that it is not necessary to have the-wedge-shaped member a extend upward practically the full width of the correspondence, or the depth of the drawer.

It is of course understood that these markers are made in different sizes, so as to be adapted to be used in connection with small filing card systems, as well as the conventionally used vertical iiling cabinets.

The marker is simple and inexpensive in construction, and both durable and eficient in operation, and can be adjusted between space between portions of correspondence, comprising a wedge-shaped member held.V base upward, and a handle secured to the base of said member.

" In testimony whereof I alX my signature,

n the presence of two Witnesses.

SPENCER A. WELLS.

a set of cards or between index or alpha-V betically arranged papers, so that any removed papers can be replaced wthease, aecuracy and despatch.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent s: Y

l. A marker of the class described including la pyramdal-shaped member in comb- Witnesses: nation with a curved handle. W. R. CARRINGTON,

2. AV marker adapted to Vbe placed Yin a W.'C. BLANK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, `by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

